Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.
The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized.
[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.
Only the nonreader fears books.
When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.
I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.